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Posted: Tuesday, November 05, 2019 - 04:47 AM UTC
Hi everyone!

Will be visiting Osaka soon, understand there are a lot of model hobby shops in Osaka especially Den Den Town.
Any other good hobby shops in Osaka to recommend?
Prefer non-Gundams and R/C...

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Posted: Wednesday, November 13, 2019 - 06:47 PM UTC
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Posted: Thursday, November 14, 2019 - 12:19 AM UTC
Can't help you with Osaka, but if you have a lay-over in Tokyo, I can hook you up.

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Posted: Sunday, November 24, 2019 - 03:48 AM UTC

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Can't help you with Osaka, but if you have a lay-over in Tokyo, I can hook you up.




Hi ,

Any shops to recommend just in case I might drop by Tokyo?

For far i have narrowed down to:
Hobby Shop Sunny
Tamiya Plamodel Factory
Hobby Base Yellow Submarine
Pinvise
Hobby Arai.

Thanks for reading.
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Posted: Monday, November 25, 2019 - 02:44 AM UTC
I thought the Tamiya Plamodel Factory was kind of disappointing, but it's kind of a must-do if you are a Tamiya fan. Yellow Submarine is good and there are a few others in the Akihabara area that you can locate by Googling 'Hobby Shop'

Possibly my favorite place for looking for kits is a place called Mandrake in the Nakano Sun Road shopping plaza. They deal in second-hand kits and they've got kinds of cool stuff. Worth checking out if you get there.

Osaka probably also has it's share of Hard-Off and Hobby-Off stores, which is another great place to look for kits and supplies. I found some great Easter eggs lurking in those places.

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Posted: Tuesday, November 26, 2019 - 02:05 PM UTC
Mandarake is great. They have an online store too.

Another one would be Yodabashi Camera. They have chain stores in the major cities.
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Posted: Wednesday, November 27, 2019 - 01:20 AM UTC

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Mandarake is great. They have an online store too.

Another one would be Yodabashi Camera. They have chain stores in the major cities.



I didn't realize Mandarake is on-line too. I've always gone to the one in Nakano. There's a Mandarake store front for just about anything anyone could want--vintage vinyl, comic books, kewpie dolls, cosplay, you name it. and of course plastic models (there are actually two store fronts I know of that deal in kits--one is focused more on vintage and rarity kits.

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